i was pissed because i lost this album when we were moving about 1 year ago and i didnt get to listen to it. but i found it yesterday so ive been listening to it nonstop (of course)
and i think you did a great review :thumb:

First APC album i got, no regrets that album rocks so much. First tiem I'd ever heard Maynard. Love the song Judith

[QUOTE=MrBrick]Hey so am I. Im just saying that counting bodies, that one song, sucked and I haven't heard anyone disagree yet. It could be an isolated incident so to speak.[/QUOTE]

I disagree, counting bodies is amazing

Just to clarify, Orestes...is about Orestes. In Greek mythology Orestes is the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Agamemnon is king of the Greeks, and leader of the Greeks in the war against the Trojans. Well Clytemnestra has a lover named Aegisthus and they murder Agamemnon, so together with his sister Electra, Orestes murders both his mother; Clytemnestra and Aegisthus to avenge their father. So in the song when the lyrics say "One womb / One shape / One resolve" it's talking about how Orestes and Electra are from the same womb and both have the desire to kill their mother. When it says "Gotta cut away, clear away / Snip away and sever this / Umbilical residue that's / Keeping me from killing you" it's talking about how he has to break away from his mother, forget that she's his mother, and only think of what she did to his father, so he has the resolve it takes to murder ones own parent. The rest of the lyrics goes hand in hand with that myth.

Overall I love this album, but Orestes, Thinking of You, and Brena are my favorite songs.

He's spot on, you know. Orestes is also a famous play by Euripidies- [I]I think[/I]. May have to check that.

Edit - It's actually Euripides. My spelling sucks. :)

I scanned through the previous posts, so if i restate something someone else has already said I apologize.

Mer De Noms has got to be one of my favorite albums of all time. I have listened to this CD countless times and have yet to get the slightest bit sick of it. I think 13th step is just as good, but on a different level, since the difference in both sound and band members causes it to have a much different feel without losing its core APC-ness.

A side comment, if this belongs in a different thread I apologize once again: IN MY OPINION (there I said it), Lateralus isn't as good as Aenima. Don't get me wrong, Lateralus is a brilliant album, as is everything Tool has done. I like Aenima because it was the perfect mix between the two sides of Tool: The heavier Opiate-esque side and the meaning within a paradigm within an enigma (or somethin' like dat) side. This combination creates so amazing an album that I almost wet myself just thinking about it.

i may have to borrow this from my friend. i've got 13th step and its great, i have yet to hear much of this album

It's a great album. It hits a little harder than Thirteenth Step, and imo the songwriting is slightly better, though both albums are amazing. It's got a nice mix of MJK's amazing vocals and lyrics, Josh Freese's drumming (his playing might not be as technical as Carey's in Tool's, but he's a very solid drummer, definitely one of my top three). Billy Howerdel is a good guitarist, and plays some catchy, heavy riffs, but Mer de Noms has a soft side too, it's just not as soft as Thirteenth Step and doesn't show it as often :p. This album also has a nice amount Paz' violin work, which always sounds good.